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Communism is a system of government in which the ruling party controls major investment decisions while hoarding wealth for itself and suppressing all opposition.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, Donald Trump professes to dislike it.<\/p>\n

The president is trying to whip the nation into an anti-communist frenzy. His two speeches over the Fourth of July speeches denounced Marxism-Leninism and presented Trump as the main obstacle standing between America and a dystopian future in which capitalism no longer exists and grim-faced soldiers march down Pennsylvania Avenue on May Day.<\/p>\n

Trump is correct that the Democratic Socialists of America, whose leadership is at least half communist, has gained a toehold in the Democratic Party. And Trump\u2019s hatred of communism is consistent with some of his most important beliefs. Communists demonize both billionaires and American nationalism, two things Trump adores, and they pursue a more egalitarian distribution of wealth, whereas he has done the opposite.<\/p>\n

On closer inspection, however, Trump has more in common with Communists than his hostile rhetoric lets on. He has probably done more to expand public ownership of the means of production than any president in history. Trump has seized a stake in nearly two dozen private firms so far, for little reason other than the fact that he can. Recently, he wrote on Truth Social that gasoline retailers \u201cmust\u201d lower prices or \u201cbig problems lie ahead.\u201d And although he has no power to do so, the distinction between public and private has eroded during his presidency to the degree that oil companies, or any large companies, have reason to believe that defying Trump\u2019s wishes could expose them to government retaliation.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s admiration for Communist political methods is even more pronounced than his respect for its economic system. Trump has praised Communist dictators in terms unlike those used by any American president outside the context of a wartime alliance. In 1990, Trump told Playboy<\/i> that the Chinese Communist Party \u201calmost blew it\u201d before showing \u201cthe power of strength\u201d by crushing demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, thus avoiding the fate of the Soviet regimes that fell the same year.<\/p>\n

He has praised Communist dictators\u2014not in the vein of, say, congratulating Cuba for its education policy, but specifically for crushing all opposition. \u201cHe\u2019s a brilliant guy,\u201d Trump gushed of China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, in 2024. \u201cHe controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. I mean, he\u2019s a brilliant guy, whether you like it or not.\u201d Trump once claimed that he and Kim Jong Un \u201cfell in love,\u201d explaining: \u201cHe\u2019s the head of a country. And, I mean, he is the strong head. Don\u2019t let anyone think anything different. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s factual understanding of American history also dovetails closely with that of the far left. He simply disagrees on the moral implications. In his speech at Mount Rushmore on Friday, Trump attacked communists for smearing American prosperity as the fruits of violent expropriation. \u201cAs for those who peddle Marxist lies about our heritage, tell our children that we live on stolen land or that our heroes were oppressors, they\u2019re doing something much worse than slandering our past,\u201d he said. Yet Trump himself has questioned American innocence. \u201cThere are a lot of killers,\u201d he once said, by way of defending Vladimir Putin. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of killers. What, you think our country\u2019s so innocent?\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s most powerful aide, Stephen Miller, has echoed this line of thinking. He said on CNN in January, \u201cWe live in a world, in the real world, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Enthusiasts for capitalism see prosperity as a positive-sum enterprise generated through cooperation. Trump views it in zero-sum terms, as a thing the strong seize from the weak\u2014a view that informs his constant desire to steal natural resources from smaller countries. That conviction is hardly limited to Marxists. But it\u2019s odd that he would fault Marxists for taking the same blood-stained view of American progress he holds so dearly.<\/p>\n

None of this is to suggest that Trump is devoted to communism, or to any theory at all. Trump is sub-ideological, and the instincts that guide his decisions are generally right-wing rather than left-wing. Yet because Trump lacks any theoretical understanding of conservatism, and because Communist states tend to devolve into corrupt oligarchies that diverge sharply from the progressive utopias their idealistic supporters imagine, they seem to hold a certain strange attraction for him.<\/p>\n

Unlike his attacks on liberalism, which consist of pure contempt, Trump\u2019s denunciations of communism have an undercurrent of admiration. \u201cCommunism is very easy to sell. It destroys everything, but it is very easy,\u201d he mused recently. \u201cI\u2019ll be honest\u2014I think I\u2019d be the greatest Communist in history. I\u2019d give free rent: Ladies and gentlemen, from now on, you don\u2019t have to pay any rent. From now on, anybody who wants a house, just pick the house you want. Everybody gets free food. Everything is free from this point forward.<\/i> Everyone\u2019s gonna vote for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump accurately captured communism\u2019s main allure\u2014its promise to create a paradise on Earth. But he also described his own political style. He has at times claimed his health-care plan will give people fantastic coverage at lower cost, that he will bring American manufacturing jobs back by the millions, and that he will personally roll back inflation, among other tantalizing promises. Trump once said, \u201cI will give you everything,\u201d a pledge that would have struck even Lenin as a bit messianic.<\/p>\n

Unlike the Communists, however, Trump has not bothered to even attempt measures like universal health insurance. He has skipped straight ahead to the coup attempts, show trials, military parades, kitschy personality cult, and endless harangues filled with absurd claims about economic progress.<\/p>\n

Many idealists have looked at communism\u2019s history of repressive failure and decided it could go differently if they just give the system one more try. Trump, unburdened by ideals, has looked at the same history and consciously chosen to mimic its worst elements.<\/p>\n

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